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Back in the day before the Umercan bankster backed media overlords convinced the whole dumbed down conformist population of that (sad excuse for a) nation that bitcoin is some kind of 'digital asset' that gets bought/sold/valued in fiat dollar ter

A travel booking platform - Travala.com recently announced to accept Bitcoin BTC as one of their payment method. But the question is would you use your BTC to book a hotel? https://twitter.com/travalacom/status/1075233838031228928 submitted by

At a dealership last night, I tried to put down a little more than 5k as a down payment for a new car. Bank of America declined it even though I told a rep that I would be doing it earlier that day. Long story short, I was locked out of my account until

For the first time, teenagers said they wanted cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Fortnite "V-Bucks" virtual currency instead of cash, gift cards and gas money, according to the "Holiday 2018" consumer report released this month by invest

Want to convert your altcoins to bitcoins this Christmas? Coinbase has launched Coinbase Convert, a new feature that allows retail users to make direct crypto-to-crypto conversions on the exchange.Quick Crypto Conve

Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today.Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to. Whet

I had a bad habit of leaving a very large balance in my localbitcoins wallet and I paying the price for it now. ​ 7 days ago a seller made a false claim that I reversed one of my transactions from several weeks earlier. The seller sent erroneous do

John McAfee praised Bitcoin for being $16.600 in a tweet — where he explains how those that are old school simply do not understand the math supporting the blockchain and how it’s literally impossible that Bitcoin is a bubble. The tweet was publ

I couldn't find any active development reddits, so I ask here - is it possible to do? I'm running a you-would-think a typical scenario of someone who needs to interact with blockchain programatically, but doesn't need blockchain data otherwise

It's been almost three months since the inflation vulnerability was identified. How many of you have patched your wallets and your full nodes since then? YES. There is no direct threat to individual or network since economic majority has patched

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That was several years ago. I have never sold a single bitcoin, and although I kinda wish I did when it hit $19,000, I didn't know where it would go. Those people telling you to sell at $19k because it was obvious it was overpriced would have told you

Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the servic

Decentralized payment processor BTCPayServer now offers wallet support for c-lightning users.Following its most recent update, the BitPay alternative announced support for Spark Wallet, a client for the Lightning Ne

While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.Blockstream’s full node Bitcoin satellites are s

And I’m still only scratching the surface. It really is a beautiful technology. Some of the new developments, particularly around privacy, are amazing are actually driving cryptographic research. The more I know the more I see this technology as destine

I have a netgear router. I did my port forwarding 8333, I did my port exceptions in windows firewall, I did my DHCP address reservation. Still doesn't show up when I put the IP address into https://bitnodes.earn.com/#join-the-network ....would anyone

Bitcoins scarcity leads to people wanting to hold it. This leads to price appreciation which leads to others wanting to hold it. Bitcoin is the only asset on earth whos supply cannot be increased due to increased demand, making it the only asset where you

Stop whining guys. Everything is fine. Sure, some people feeling bad now as they told everyone to buy, bought at 19k etc.. it's not about the price. In the long run, everything is still fine. Just relax. Bitcoin is not dead. It's so much developme

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It looks like even the new alternatives to Patreon are being attacked and are falling at the first hurdle (https://www.ft.com/content/7c4285b2-fe2f-11e8-ac00-57a2a826423e). Isn't this a huge oppurtunity for some clever people to create a crypto altern

A brief overview: NY bitlicense regulation still exists, the battle against it continues in the courts. http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/ California - the proposed bitlicense bills were all defeated between 2015 and 2018. Connecticut - proposed bitlic

Let's say Bitcoin would have never deflated after the 2017 run up. Let's say the price of Bitcoin was somewhere around $80,000 right now. The financial markets are currently extremely shaky, more and more people are coming to the realization that

The time has come for us to test what we have created. Trust in numbers yet we trust in exchanges, in people, in corporations. On the 3rd of January 2019, 10 years on, let us all have withdrawn our BTC to wallets we control. Let's see if it is all the

Hey, while not directly about Bitcoin, I drew up a post that handles proof-of-work and plays with using this as a concept for firms to be able to sell and buy proof-of-work for processing power or added security. https://medium.com/@dlrusinek/pow-as-a-ser